Women in media still held back

South African newsrooms are still predominantly "white old boys' clubs" and black women have yet to crack the glass ceiling, an audit revealed yesterday.

The release of Glass Ceiling Two: An Audit of Women and Men in South African Newsrooms on World Press Freedom Day suggests that genuine press freedom is impossible to attain while gender inequality is still prevalent.

The study, headed by the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef), states: "While the income differential between white men and black men in newsrooms is narrowing, black women earn on average 25percent less than white men in newsrooms."